Benefits of working at Telecom

Aside from being a great place to work, there are plenty of tangible benefits that being an employee of the Telecom Group brings you.

Rewards and Recognition

Telecom prides itself on providing remuneration that is competitive with the wider market and offering rewards that are linked to short, medium and long term individual and company performance.

As a core part of our remuneration philosophy, we achieve this through annual incentive schemes and/or monthly sales commissions that are based on the achievement of company, business unit and individual measures. Further to this, annual remuneration reviews ensure that Telecom remains competitive in the wider market and employees are rewarded for their performance.

We understand the importance of regular non-financial recognition and promote the use of our "Being Your Best" programme to reward individual achievement.

We're also committed to building the capability of our people through providing a number of initiatives including structured development programmes.

Telecom and Technology

We are passionate about the products we offer - and we know the best way for our people to understand them is to use them.

All permanent Telecom employees have free access to our unique employee concession:

• A home phone line
• Unlimited national calling
• A broadband plan
• A mobile phone and plan

On top of that we provide an additional concession which can be used to cover additional services and usage, whether it be upgrading to a bigger broadband plan for all that downloading, paying for all those calls to family overseas, or purchasing some of our great add-on services like voicemail or call waiting.

Telecom employees are also entitled to varying discounts on Telecom products offered in our Retail stores.

Lifestyle and Leisure

Telecom encourages employees to have a good work and life balance, enabled by the high number of lifestyle and leisure benefits on offer

• A flexible working policy ensures employees are at home when they need to be
• Regularly organised Telecom social events offer the chance to relax
• Discounted health insurance schemes are available and you can select the plan most suitable to your personal circumstances from day-to-day healthcare cover to full surgical care
• Six weeks paid primary caregiver leave and one week partner's paid parental leave is available in addition to legislative parental leave requirements
• Telecom provide access to subsidised New Zealand-wide, low cost, quality holiday accommodation
• We sponsor our employees to participate in public sporting events, such as Auckland Round the Bays and Christchurch City to Surf, and also provide subsidised registration to a number of sports teams
• Confidential counselling sessions with an impartial, professional third party are available to support employees through any personal issues they may be facing

Future and Finances

It is important to Telecom that employees are financially stable and are thinking about 'life after working'. To do so Telecom

• Contributes to your retirement savings with KiwiSaver
• Has an Employee Share Scheme, through which we make it easy to buy Telecom shares with a small fortnightly contribution and we will pay the brokerage fees

Discounts and Deals

As well as our formal employee benefits, a number of other New Zealand companies provide concessions to Telecom employees. Examples include

• A range of financial services discounts are offered by Westpac to our employees
• Insurance companies offering competitive rates on a number of insurance cover options
• Various travel and hospitality companies also offer Telecom employees a number of corporate travel rates for their own private travel